Worldly Concern

Famous quotes containing the words worldly and/or concern:

    “The weariest and most loathed worldly life
    That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
    Can lay on nature is a paradise
    To what we fear of death.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)